Dr. Wolfang Haberland was born in Hamburg in 1922, where he spent his childhood and youth. While his father was an international tradesman, one of his grandfathers was co-owning one of Hamburgs first cinemas. In World War II Haberland became a prisoner of war but was disbanded in 1946. A year later he took up his studies of Anthropology, Prehistory and Geography in Hamburg, where Franz Termer was his main teacher.
In 1952 Haberland graduated and eventually undertook several field researches in Central America, e.g. in El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama. After three years he returned to Hamburg and became the head chairman of the Department for America at the Ethnographic Museum in Hamburg. Haberland worked there for the next four decades until his retirement in 1984. He not only organized various exhibitions and did several further journeys to America, but also co-worked at the Museums Department for Africa. Moreover Haberland gave academic lectures at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology in Hamburg.
Haberland passed away 20th Oct 2015.
